The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) invite software developers to attend the annual Open Standards and Open Source Code Sprint. The hybrid (virtual and in-person) event will take place April 25-27, 2023. Participation is free and open to the public.

The Code Sprint will be hosted by Camptocamp, an OGC member and OSGeo member. The event will be held in Bussigny, near Geneva, Switzerland.

The goal of the Code Sprint is to advance support and development of open geospatial standards within the developer community. The Code Sprint is a collaborative and inclusive event to support the development of new applications and open standards, as well as to enable software developers to focus on projects that implement open geospatial standards. Code Sprints experiment with emerging ideas in the context of geospatial standards, help improve interoperability of existing standards by experimenting with new extensions or profiles, and are used for building or enhancing software products to implement the standards.

Non-coding activities such as testing, working on documentation, or reporting issues are welcomed during the Code Sprint as well. In addition, the Code Sprint’s mentor stream provides developers the opportunity to begin using the standards and projects, and hopefully this will build an engagement which will continue past the code sprint. The Code Sprint will cover multiple ASF and OSGeo projects, as well as related OGC Standards - including OGC API Standards. Further, the Code Sprint is open to the general public, even if you are not active members or contributors to the efforts of the hosting organizations.

When: Begins April 25, 2023, 09:00 CEST (UTC+2) and ends- April 27, 2023 at 17:00 CEST. A detailed schedule of this code sprint can be found on the event Wiki.

Where:

Virtual participation will be through the OGC Discord Server

Cost: Free to attend both virtually and in-person.

Who: Open to the public.

Registration for in-person participation closes at 17:00 CEST on April 18th. Registration for remote participation will remain open throughout the Code Sprint.

To learn more about OGC code sprints, visit the OGC developer events wiki, or join the OGC-Events Discord Server.